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E. SOANLAN & J. ZIPP. GRATB AND MEANS FOR OPERATING SAME.

No. 496,006. 'Pate'ntedApr. 25, 1893.

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. UNITED STATESPATENT QFFIQE.

EDI/VARD SCANLAN, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, AND JOHN ZIPP, OF NEW ALBANY, INDIANA.

GRATE AND MEANS FOR OPERATING SAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 496,006, dated April 25, 1893.

Application filed April 25, 1892. Serial No. 430,540. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern: opposite direction on said cam-shaped projec- Be it known that we, EDWARD SOANLAN, retion when downward pressure is removed from siding at Louisville, in the county of Jefferson the foot pedal. and State of Kentucky, and JOHN ZIPP, resid- Other objects and advantages of the invening at New Albany, in the county of Floyd tion will hereinafter appear and the novel 55 and State of Indiana, citizens of the United features thereof will be specifically defined States, have invented certain new and useful by the appended claims.

Improvements in Grates and Means for Op- The invention is clearly illustrated in the crating Same, of which the following isa speciaccompanying drawings, which, with the let- [0 fication, reference being had therein to the ters of reference marked thereon, form apart 6o accompanying drawings. of this specification, and in which- This invention relates to certain new and Figure l isa vertical section through a grate useful improvements in rocking and dumpequipped with my improvements. Fig.2isa ing grates and means for operating the same. top plan with parts broken away.

Heretofore it has been the practice to form Like letters of reference indicate like parts 65 grates in sections for instance in fire-boxes in both views. and other constructions, and the dumping has Referring now to the details of the drawbeen accomplished by means of levers con ings by letter, A designates a grate which may nected with the sections. This has usually be of any well known or preferred form of been accomplished by hand. In stoves and construction, suitably pivotally mounted in '70 furnaces the grates have been provided with its frame or support B, being provided at each projections to receive a hand lever which end with a pintle a supported in suitable bearnecessitates the stooping of the attendant in ings in the frame or support, the pintles beclose proximity to the hot stove; and besides ing considerably to one side of the longitudi- 2 5 the handle or lever must be removed as soon nal center as seen best in Fig. 2 to throw the 75 as the shaking or dumping is accomplished or preponderance of weight toward the front so it will become so heated as to burn the hand that normally the grate seats itself in a horiwhen next it is desired to use it. zontal position and is held there by gravity The primary object of this invention is to against any tendency to dump the same. A

provide a foot pedal so constructed and arsuitable lug b may be provided on the frame 80 ranged as to serve for shaking and also for B as seen in Fig. 2 to limit the downward v dumping the grate, which pedal or lever is movement of the grate at the front.

arranged to be depressed by the foot to actu- O is a foot lever or pedal pivoted between ate the parts, the grate being so pivoted as to its ends as at c to some fixed part, its outer automatically return to its normal position end extending to a sufficient distance beyond 85 when pressure is removed from the foot pedal. the frame or support and formed with a foot- WVe provide means for preventing full inovepiece 0 the upper face of which may be roughrnent of the foot pedal whereby the grate may ened as seen in Fig. 2. As shown in the presbe shaken without dumping, or, by the movent instance this lever is formed witha curve ing of which, the grate may be dumped by the but it will of course be understood that the 90 said foot lever. The lever is permanently shape of the lever will depend upon the ciraffixed in position, is always ready for use, oumstances under which it is used. The inand even should it become warm it makes no ner end of the lever is arranged to act upon difference. In the present form we provide the under side of the end bar of the grate as 5 the grate with a cam-shaped projection upon shown, and in Fig. 1 we have shown this end 9 5 its under face upon which travels a roller carbar as provided with a cam-shaped lug e ried by the inner end of the foot pedal to force against which the said inner end of the lever the grate against its preponderance of weight, works, and this inner end preferably carries the grate automatically returning to its nora small roller E which may be grooved and is 1. mal position and the roller traveling in the loosely journaled on the end of the lever. mo

Or, instead of this construction and arrangement of parts we may connect the inner end of the lever with the grate bar by a pivotally connected link F as shown by dotted lines in Fig. l. I

In order to limit the movement or the foot lever so that it may be used for shakingthe grate instead of dumping and also to prevent dumping when shaking we provide a pivoted arm G the outer end of which may be provided with a suitable knob or handle 9, the said arm being pivoted on a vertical pivot g on the frame and its inner end carries a depending lug G. When the arm is moved horizontally on its pivot so as to throw this lug in the path of the foot lever it permits the lever to move but slightly as will be readily understood from Fig. 2, but when it-is moved in the opposite direction the foot leveris free to move its entire limit to throw the grate into the position in which it is shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1. lhe curvature of the lever permits of this movementwithout touching the arm or its ing. A stop pin h maybe provided to limit the movement of the arm G; This arm may be moved by the foot. The advantages of such a construction and arrangement of partsas above described will be at once apparent. The foot pedal is op= erated by the foot as illustrated in Fig. 1, in" I a vertical direction, not horizontally, there is no necessity of stooping down to-grasp it by the hand the same lever and the'same downward pressureserve to both shake and dump the grate. The grate automaticallyreturns to its horizontalposition when pressure isreing the same, and an interposed arm pivoted so as to bring its inner end over the foot pedal to limit its movement for shaking the grate and out of the path of the foot pedal for dumping the grate, substantially as specified.

2. The combination with a dumping grate,

of a pivoted foot pedal having a bend, a roller at the innerend thereof, and a movable arm with a lug to engage the pedal at said bend, as and for the'pnrposespecified. 3. The combination with a pivoted grate having cam-shaped lug on its under face, of a pivoted foot pedal carrying a roller to engage said lug and apivoted arm havinga lug to engage said pedal, as set forth.

4. The combination'with a dumping grate, of' a' substantially horizontal foot pedal having its inner end disconnected from and mounted to act upon the grate, and a horizontal arm pivoted on a higher plane and having'depending lug to engage the pedal to-hold the same"against'movementyas set forth.

In testimony whereof We aflix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD SOANLAN. JOI-IN5 ZIPP. Witnesses:

PATRICK J OYCE, JAMES B. OooKE. 

